1956 – 1970
Anne was born in Queensland, Australia, on September 13, 1956, the third daughter in the family. Raised on a 26,000-acre beef cattle property in North Queensland, Australia, Anne and her four sisters, Susan, Kaye, Sally, and Helen, were true country kids, horseback riding, mustering cattle, and swimming in flooded creek beds during the wet season.

STARTING A NEW LIFE

1972 - 1974
Anne left school at 16, enrolled in technical college to learn office skills, and at 17 took a job with a chain of tourist hotels in New Zealand, traveling overseas for the first time in 1974.

1974 – 1975
To record her day-to-day adventures, she began taking literally hundreds of photographs, sending her exposed film back to Australia to be developed and waiting the two weeks it took for film to be processed and returned.

A "FORK IN THE ROAD"

1978
In a tumultuous period when she was 22, Anne opened and closed her small retail clothing store Daddy Long Legs, was hired as a secretary at a local television station in Brisbane, Australia, and met the man who would become her husband, Kel, who was the station’s programming director.

NEW BEGINNINGS

1978 – 1981
During their early lives together, Anne and Kel lived in an unfurnished house without a refrigerator; an old wooden door propped up on bricks was their dining table. Beginning in 1981, Anne worked in marketing and publicity for a large chain of department stores in Queensland, Australia.

1982
In her mid-twenties, Anne picked up a family camera and self-taught, pursued portraiture. Kel became president of programming for ATV—one of Australia’s three major commercial television networks—in Hong Kong.

1983
Anne and Kel moved to Hong Kong and were married.